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In veto overturn, Illinois legislature approves grid modernization plan

Ameren Illinois and ComEd both released statements in approval of the vote, saying this legislation will help them improve the electric power grid ...

TOA Technologies helps E.On deploy smart meters in U.K.

With the software, E.On will be able to predict when appointments happen and how long they will take

National Grid, ChargePoint launch electric vehicle charging station project

ChargePoint and National Grid unveiled the first of what will be many electric vehicle charging stations funded through a $1 million award from the...

Smart meter C&I market will reach nearly $13 million by 2020

Worldwide shipments of smart meters for the C&I market will grow from 10 million annually in 2013 to 12.7 million annually by 2020

Power grid underprepared for threats to cybersecurity

The restructuring of the power sector and the emergence of the smart grid has largely ignored the issue of cybersecurity, according to ABI Research

Elster Solutions names president

Fronmuller comes to Elster from SAIC Energy, where he spent the past five years as senior vice president of global utilities

More than 480 microgrid projects in some stage of development

More than 480 microgrid projects are proposed, planned, under construction, or operating worldwide, representing nearly 3,800 MW of capacity

Mitsubishi Electric to collaborate with Echelon on smart meters

Mitsubishi Electric's new smart meters will incorporate grid-sensing and communication technologies based on Echelon's OGSP and its networked energ...

ConEd's smart grid program creates 2,700 jobs

The report showed that the grid modernization program produced 896 full-time equivalent positions, including 313 at the utility and 583 at its cont...

AT&T provides Duck River Electric with smart grid package

The utility came to AT&T to upgrade their smart grid infrastructure, reduce operational costs and improve customer service

Metering market to reach nearly $20 billion in 2018

Increasing smart meter penetration due to benefits such as prepayment facilities, fraud detection, peak consumption knowledge and energy saving is ...

Smart grid gained in popularity in 2012

Convincing end-users to embrace this technology, by communicating the possibilities for greater energy management and conservation it enables, is c...

U.S. males more likely to buy electric vehicles

About 4.4 percent of U.S. adults said they were "very likely" to purchase an electric vehicle over the next year, according to a consumer...

U.S. Army, Lockheed Martin cut ribbon on Ft. Bliss microgrid

The project was funded by the Department of Defense's Environmental Security Technology Certification Program

Silver Spring Networks picked for smart lighting project in Paris

Silver Spring provides a high-performance IPv6-based network that establishes a communications foundation for a city's assets regardless of distrib...

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